Congrats to Gratton, Mengesha, and Portelance!

May 28, 2021

There are multiple awards to our Ph.D. students to celebrate this week:

Chantal Gratton has been selected to receive the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. Established in 1989, this award recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching by teaching assistants in the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering. In the School of Humanities and Sciences, departments nominate teaching assistants who they believe deserve special recognition for outstanding contributions to teaching.
Zion Mengesha has been awarded a Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Doctoral Fellowship from VPGE. These two-year fellowships are awarded to advanced doctoral students who want to investigate and prepare for academic careers and whose presence will help diversify the professoriate. They also support students in their committment to using diversity as a resource to enrich the education of others.
Eva Portelance has received a 2021 Graduate Student Community Impact Award from the Stanford Alumni Association. The award "recognizes graduate students who have enhanced the Stanford community … These outstanding students have fostered a sense of belonging and inspired enthusiasm among fellow grad students."

Our heartiest congratulations to all!